Welcome to Personality Type @ Work!

As a long-time practitioner of the MBTI, and having written interpretive reports for the assessment (available in easy-to-use software packages), I decided to bring to you all the best information I could find about using/interpreting the MBTI at work and at home.

I'm particularly interested in bringing you material that is very useful, and is based on darn good research. Or that brings to light interesting applications for the MBTI. Or that helps us navigate our worlds better because of the insights the MBTI can provide us.

I hope you enjoy the content I curate! Please leave comments, contact me with ideas, or share with me your content so I can highlight it here.

Hi Karen, Thanks for this topic - I know it will grow to be extremely valuable. I'm an MBTI step 1 and 2 practionner too and use the tool as well as Facet 5 and the Bar-On Eqi inventory extensively in my coaching and team development practice.

Thanks Richard! I'm experimenting here and not even reviewing articles yet. Just trying to get a feel for what's out there on the MBTI. Seems most articles are about the E/I scale. We'll see how it all turns out! So stay tuned.... :)

The human ingenuity within any organisation are it's greatest competitive advantage. Yet according to the latest statistics, over half of todays workers are disengaged . When leaders are committed and actively working to engage, inspire and embolden – they unleash untapped potential and raise the bar not just on productivity, but on the value their organization contributes to all stakeholders.

The infographic above says it all -- beyond the numbers, this is the work of leaders. I include entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and any company with a social cause bent on changing the world into this category. The article by Margie Warrell does a great job explaining what each of these 3 activities are and why they are important.

Now here's my 2 cents: one of the most powerful and efficient ways to get all 3 done is through effective storytelling. Want to succeed as a leader? Want to make a difference? Want to change the world/your company? Master storytelling skills.

Enjoy this post and many thanks to fellow curator Dr. Susan Bainbridge for originally finding and sharing this article in her Transformational Leadership curation.

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We have been seeing more and more general misunderstanding of the ‘scaffloding’ on which the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was built; on the web and in the popular press. I asked Peter Geyer, type author and expert on the history of the Indicator, to set the record straight on the aspects of the Indicator that are most misunderstood.

We need to remember that the MBTI® tool describes dichotomous “either/or” preferences. It does not give us information about “how much” we are of one preference over another. Here's a little rhyme I made up to help: “type is ...

This summer, during an orientation internship I had at Southern Methodist University, I was asked to select a personality assessment for my student employees to take. I automatically opted for the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI).

This post was coauthored by Jon Victor. As an extrovert, Karl has to learn to put on his “game face” and act like an introvert to be a better leader. Introverted leaders, too, need to act like extroverts at times for the same reason — fair enough. But some recent research from [...]

with differenCoaching often focuses on helping people recognize the contributions of their natural preferences while also learning to operate outside them when necessary. This allows individuals to be behaviour...

There is more to understanding each type than the whole type or the separate letters of the type codes. Using a multiple lens approach allows us to better understand each of the personality types and use more holistic language.

Karen Dietz's insight:

Personality type expert Linda Berens has written a great blog post on the best way to understand the 16 Jungian personality types, and what to pay attention to.

This is great stuff and we need more practitioners to follow Linda's lead.

Extroverts aren't the most successful in the long run at work; instead, the quiet, neurotic, introverted employees who often fret about what others think of them come out on top, according to a new study.

In this infographic, you'll get an overview of the 16 types to give a sense of how these bigger-than-life personalities fit in the Myers-Briggs philosophy. The official test is based on Carl Jung’s work in psychological typology.

Talent Management magazine, The Business of Talent Management (Interesting to consider for T&D - Tying MBTI to social learning: How Different Personaliy Types Play to Social Media http://t.co/FbR3Bmol...)...

Personality Types and Desirable Companies. During its annual student survey Universum asked respondents to identify the attributes of their "dream employers." The survey found that: Careerists are looking for a prestigious ...

MBTI certification programs tell prospective practitioners never to use these scores because it is possible to misuse them as suggesting 'strength' of preference. The formulas developed here do not do this, however.

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